I always have an odd and sad feeling on 9/11. My daughter, now the senior forensic pathologist in the Manhattan OCME, was a 4th year medical student when a doc in her apartment in Brooklyn phoned and asked if she would go with her to the twin towers. She had a police escort. Without thinking what was involved, she said yes. Mercifully, she was removed after four days -- so no illness befell her later on. Of course there was nothing to do, medically, so for four days her job was to help the firemen on breaks rinse their eyes. (Being a dog person, she tried to cheer up the sniffer dogs, depressed because they couldn't do their jobs. The way she did this was to inveigle one of "her" firemen to play dead so the dog could feel he'd accomplished something. She went to reunions of first responders for five years, until she could no more deal with the emotions. Although she'd not yet graduated, I knew, then, she was a real doctor.
We are leaving this week on a road trip which has many similarities to yours. Your descriptions of our beautiful country were wonderful - and now I can hardly wait to leave!
I always have an odd and sad feeling on 9/11. My daughter, now the senior forensic pathologist in the Manhattan OCME, was a 4th year medical student when a doc in her apartment in Brooklyn phoned and asked if she would go with her to the twin towers. She had a police escort. Without thinking what was involved, she said yes. Mercifully, she was removed after four days -- so no illness befell her later on. Of course there was nothing to do, medically, so for four days her job was to help the firemen on breaks rinse their eyes. (Being a dog person, she tried to cheer up the sniffer dogs, depressed because they couldn't do their jobs. The way she did this was to inveigle one of "her" firemen to play dead so the dog could feel he'd accomplished something. She went to reunions of first responders for five years, until she could no more deal with the emotions. Although she'd not yet graduated, I knew, then, she was a real doctor.
Knowing the reverberations will continue..
We are leaving this week on a road trip which has many similarities to yours. Your descriptions of our beautiful country were wonderful - and now I can hardly wait to leave!